(n.) A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.
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Ketch
Definition:
(n.) An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.
(n.) A hangman. See Jack Ketch.
(v. t.) To catch.
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(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bedroom at JP Ketch cottage, St John’s Point.
(2) Photograph: Alamy There are whales and dolphins just off the coast, and it is possible to avoid the more commercial whale-watching trips; I sailed with skipper João Vieira on the Ilhéu , an elegant 1946 ketch.
(3) They were refused passports, but Mosley stood by his rights under Magna Carta and bought a 60-ton ketch to sail to Lisbon in 1949 (the day before departure, passports arrived in the post).